(January 14, 2016 at 3:35 pm)AAA Wrote: I guess you don't have to believe anything just on a claim, but I personally don't think it is a good life philosophy to require evidence for everything. If someone you know tells you they got a new TV, would you demand to go to their house before you would believe them?
Tell me you rode a horse yesterday and I'll believe you without question, even if it turns out you're lying.
Tell me you rode a zebra and I'd like to see the photos or video, but it's not beyond possibility.
Tell me you rode a unicorn - well now, you're going to have to pull something really special out of the bag before I can even consider taking you seriously.
Insinuating that you either believe every claim without evidence or reject every claim without evidence is ridiculous. People are not binary.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
